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<p>[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7391596, member: 44316"]I found this these two cut-down chi-rhos at an English coin fair in 1988. The first is 11 mm and identifiable by emperor and mint!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286193[/ATTACH]</p><p>1.06 grams. Mintmark AMB.</p><p>This was minted at Amiens. The legend break for Decentius at Amiens is TI-VS and the legend break for Magnentius is EN-TI, so this must be Magnentius. For the original, see Bastien, plate IV, 141-2.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1286194[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>9 mm. 0.55 grams. Mintmark gone.</p><p>Chin and front drapery of the emperor. The (weak) end of the obverse legend suggests Decentius. The size of the remaining part of the chi-rho and the "AVG" to its upper right suggest a large original flan size.</p><p><br /></p><p>I looked through bags with many thousands (I am not exaggerating) of tiny coins. Extremely few of them were of interest, but I did find these. Most were very small FEL TEMP REPARATIO soldier-spearing-fallen-horseman types (and many ancient imitations of them) and almost all were weakly struck and in poor condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if coin fairs in England still would (if it weren't for the pandemic) have bags full of tiny and poor condition late Roman coins to pick through. Can some of our English members let us know?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Valentinian, post: 7391596, member: 44316"]I found this these two cut-down chi-rhos at an English coin fair in 1988. The first is 11 mm and identifiable by emperor and mint! [ATTACH=full]1286193[/ATTACH] 1.06 grams. Mintmark AMB. This was minted at Amiens. The legend break for Decentius at Amiens is TI-VS and the legend break for Magnentius is EN-TI, so this must be Magnentius. For the original, see Bastien, plate IV, 141-2. [ATTACH=full]1286194[/ATTACH] 9 mm. 0.55 grams. Mintmark gone. Chin and front drapery of the emperor. The (weak) end of the obverse legend suggests Decentius. The size of the remaining part of the chi-rho and the "AVG" to its upper right suggest a large original flan size. I looked through bags with many thousands (I am not exaggerating) of tiny coins. Extremely few of them were of interest, but I did find these. Most were very small FEL TEMP REPARATIO soldier-spearing-fallen-horseman types (and many ancient imitations of them) and almost all were weakly struck and in poor condition. I wonder if coin fairs in England still would (if it weren't for the pandemic) have bags full of tiny and poor condition late Roman coins to pick through. Can some of our English members let us know?[/QUOTE]
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